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quaranmeme2018-06-20 06:40 pm
riverview: june test drive meme
riverview test drive memeWelcome to Riverview's test drive meme! Feel free to dip your toes in on the test drive meme to try out your character in the setting, play out a mission, and get samples for your application at the same time!
● There are currently 47 Character Slots available.
● Reserves are currently OPEN. Applications are currently CLOSED and will open on August 1st at 10:00 pm EST.
● Providing all parties are amenable, threads on the test drive meme can count as game canon, as the plot in the prompts presented is game canon.
● TDM threads do not count for Activity Check, but they do count for Activity Bonus Points, so long as all characters involved are accepted into the game.
● Threading on the TDM is intended for prospective new characters, so top-levels should only be posted by players of these characters. Since the events in the TDM are considered game canon, characters currently in the game are free to use the TDM prompts for logs and posts on the regular communities.
Feel free to use the prompts below or create your own scenario. The setting is built to be flexible, so feel free to make things up as you go.
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After the unveiling of the newly cleaned-up amusement park, it's been going strong, open to the public and seeing heavy traffic flow from residents of the City. After all, it's been a while since a new attraction opened in Riverview. Slowly but surely, the people in charge of the park have been keeping it open later and later into the evening, testing the strength of the wall and trying to see how many monsters the bright lights and cheerful music and chattering crowds draw.
And it's all seemed to be just perfect - until the middle of June. It started with a few little critters, mostly the size of toy poodles and vaguely crablike, they skittered around the bottom of the laser fences, testing the strength of it. And then more of them started coming. By the 20th, there are probably hundreds of little toy poodle sized crab critters prodding at the fence, making a racket and making the guests nervous. Not a huge deal, not at first.
But apparently toy poodle sized crabs are really delicious, because predators have started coming over to the fence to feed on them. Between the horde of crab-critters and the marauding predators, there's starting to be a dangerous buildup of pressure against the fences.
The Perimeter Guard is putting out a call for anyone willing to help disperse the horde, and the owners of the amusement park are throwing in vouchers for free passes to the park (and all the fun rides!) for anyone who takes up the call. Care to join?
The amusement park isn't only the place where pint-sized monster pests are showing up - they're everywhere. Inside the city, they're a little smaller but far more insidious, and almost impossible to get rid of on a large scale. After a bit of consideration, the Government, in cooperation with the Perimeter Guard, has decided to set up a little competition to help with a bit of pest control. A scavenger hunt!
From the 20th of June until the 20th of July, the Government will be offering a reward to anyone who can prove they have 'taken care of' 5 or more each of the four pests causing mayhem in the city - a mildly-poisonous leathery-winged reptile that feeds on eyeballs, a mutated rat-like creature that likes to nest in the hair of sleeping people and animals and has a high-pitched scream that can cause disorientation, a beautifully sparkly delicate moth-like creature that causes intense mood swings through pheromones and hormones, and a creature that looks exactly like the standard domesticated foxes many residents keep as pets but who spit fire when angry.
The reward for bringing in proof of taking out 5 of each of these pests will be around 250 Units, or a gift or gift certificate of equivalent value.
Perimeter Guard Captain Anali Apple has released a statement regarding this challenge: 'And to all the animal lovers out there, if you've got a problem with killing these guys, then by all means go gather them up before they get killed. We'll reward people who catch and release, long as they're not in the city.'
Welcome to Riverview Quarantine! What's your talent?
Everyone who arrives in the Quarantine gets a short interview to try to place them in an appropriate job, but this month it's a little different. With Carnivale and its focus on creative performances right around the corner, the Orientation teams are asking an extra question - do you want to join a talent show? Characters new and old are invited to attend and perform in the Riverview's Got Talent show on a large stage in the city center, performing any kind of talent they might have, from singing to dancing to art to martial arts to magic or anything else you can imagine! After the performances, there will be free refreshments and a meet and greet so performers can get some feedback on their performance (please be kind!).
Since new characters or players may feel a bit shy jumping in on this one, there will be a mod-posted subthread for existing players to post up a quick description of a performance their character might put on for new arrivals to respond to. Any existing players should keep their top-levels to this prompt and this sub-thread, and only new characters should be responding to them - if you want to play out talent show performances and interactions with two characters already in the game, please post it on the logs community.
Residents new and old might notice advertisements going up around the city for a brand new restaurant - the Blind Date Café. A pioneering concept by a born romantic in the city, the Café is a concept business where it's Dragosta (the celebration of romantic love) all year around! Singles, or people who are into polyamory, can come to the Café and tell the host/ess what their romantic preferences are (gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, etc.) and be seated at complete random with someone else at the Café who has compatible preferences. Once the random pairing is seated, they can order from a pretty standard restaurant menu at one of the lovely flower-and-candle adorned tables with a complimentary glass of wine each (for the first 100 customers!) and share a nice romantic meal.
Paired up with someone you don't get along with? That's just fine. You can totally take your meal to go. Paired up with someone you really like, and you both decide to go on a second date? Both meals are on the house!
And what about people who just aren't into romance? Well, thankfully one of the preferences you can pick is 'platonic,' in which case you'll be sat with someone who might just be your new best friend...or your future worst enemy! Who knows?
New arrivals to the city (as played on the TDM) will receive a voucher to the Blind Date Café with their welcome to the city, entitling them to a free meal.
Whether your character is posting up a silly word game, trying to get hold of a friend, or putting out feelers for people to go out into the fray with, the network is going strong.
Alternately, an offer for a free app is popping up on new arrivals' devices - Friendr is a friend-finder and/or dating app. If characters choose to install it, they will fill out a short bio and parameters for what they're looking for, upload a snap of themselves, and then proceed to browse for matches. This is a typical swipe-left-or-right type app.
Friendr base code is by photosynthesis.
The code in the textbox is for the default color scheme, but the Friendr app has a wide variety of themes, so feel free to customize with colors and patterns as you see fit, but do not remove the credit line out of respect for the creator of the code.
Use the wildcard prompt to choose your own adventure and do whatever else you like in the setting!
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It was 2015 at home. There is a lot the others remember that I don't.
[She's at a loss - another Avenger? But something about him feels different and Wanda can't place it. A little like Vision, but not quite...]
You could start by calling me Wanda.
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[There's a small smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. It's been almost two years now, but everything that happened with the Avengers concerning the Sokovian Accords falls around the time of his accident. It's in the past, yes, but it's not exactly the best time in his life either. But in the light of everything that's happened lately, and of what will come to pass, his accident only seems like a slight bump in the road.]
It's nice to meet you, Wanda. I'm Stephen. Doctor Stephen Strange.
[He doesn't really expect her to know who he is. He pauses as the waitress comes over to their table to give them the café's menu, before leaning closer when she leaves them be.]
So, about that embarrassing moment. Will you share?
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[She notices that half-smile and the 'used to be,' the same way she's noticed the initial awkwardness to many of the Avengers' reactions to finding her here. Something has happened, she's sure of that - she just doesn't know what, is afraid to ask, and very certain that no one will appreciate her using her powers to find out.
She's still trying to decide if she wants to find out if a complete stranger might tell her, but for some reason he's fixed on this embarrassing moment kick. Fine, but if he decides not to tell her his, she's taking it, weirdness or no weirdness.]
You know what Vision can do, yes? He doesn't understand doors very well because he doesn't need them. One time he was waiting for me when I got out of the shower and I had to explain why I didn't want him to see me.
[Now she takes her clothes into her bathroom with her, or exits with a towel at the very least. Just in case. They're still having to explain some human concepts to him.]
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Her story does bring an amused smile on his face. And more information about this 'Vision' he's heard of, the keeper of the Mind Stone.]
So he can phase through matter, [he says flatly, though it makes it clear that he's not familiar with all of the android's powers. Still, Wanda's story is amusing, and embarrassing, and if it managed to make him imagine her naked, well, it's something between Stephen and his imagination, for nothing of the sort shows on his face.]
Charming fella, I'm sure. [That part is said with equal amount of snark and amusement: it's hard for the sorcerer to envision someone with so little social skills.
He seems to think for a moment, taking a sip of his water before offering his own story:]
I have a few good stories, but most might not be...first date worthy of telling. [A small smirk.]
When I was still doing my residency in surgery, before becoming a neurosurgeon, I was on call one Halloween night, and decided to hit this fancy party anyway. I didn't drink, just in case I was called in, but still dressed up the part. Let's just say that I nearly gave a heart attack to the woman I called in for when she saw me dressed as a barbarian warrior.
[The Arnold Schwarzenegger style too: a short leather pang and fuzzy boots were all that he had when he had came in; he'd lost the helmet somewhere during the evening.]
lololololol
[Vision's only like a month old, cut him some slack. Being human is hard, and the Avengers miiiiiiight not be the best example of adulty-adults. Not that Stephen would be setting a much better example either - what about that was meant to be a first date-worthy question?
She hasn't even been here for five minutes and he's already imagining her naked. For shame. At least buy her dinner first.Wanda raises an eyebrow but lets him continue. You better not short her, Strange, not after that.]
The good kind of heart attack or the bad kind? And I'm sure your patients felt so much safer.
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[Vision might be a month old for Wanda, but he's a few years older for Stephen. Old enough to know better, books or web pages aside. And it's a very valid question for a first date! It's not his fault Wanda decided to choose a really embarrassing story to tell him, instead of choosing something that has happened in her childhood before the war, or the first time she had to wear high heels, or something.
He can't buy her dinner, it's free. How's that for a gentleman-y gesture?It's his turn to raise an eyebrow, though his eyes shine lightly with mirth:]
There's a good kind of heart attack? [Because, really, any heart attack is bad when you're a doctor.]
Let's just put it this way: it was more along the line of being distracted than feeling safer. It did help with taking her mind off the pain she felt until we could stabilize her wound enough for surgery.
[And it did earned him a detour to the mop closet with a nurse after his shift. But that's another story entirely.]
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It's not my fault English is strange. [Especially the slang. Spider-Man and his "throwing hands," how ridiculous.] But I think 'embarrassing story' doesn't mean 'that time an injured lady thought I was hot.'
[She's very clearly teasing, but Stephen seems like the type who needs to be called out every once in a while or else his ego will get too big.]
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Wanda calling him out manages to make Stephen cork an eyebrow slowly. There are very few people in the world that see through him, and even less brave enough to call him out on it. She's scoring points on that, even if it might ding up his ego a bit along the way. Stephen can't help himself from thinking how she would probably easily win Wong's approval for this.]
No, you're right. But being an intern still means that I couldn't treat my patient without the supervision of the doctor on call that night. It's a good thing I'm talented, because that old geezer would probably have had my ass on the street after that.
[He's pretty sure the incident is still wrote up in his file at MetGen, lost in all the accomplishments he's achieved since that night.]
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You must have had an interesting review that year.
[She smiles, takes a sip of her drink, and lets it go in favor of other investigations. Wanda was able to feel that there's something different about him from the moment she sat down, but at first she wasn't sure if it was Stephen himself or his necklace. But now that she's had a chance to get a read on him...she's pretty sure's it's both.]
But I think you do something else now?
[It's not really a question - he already knows who and what she is, so it shouldn't be so surprising that power would recognize power. Especially something that feels so like the Mind Stone but not.]
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In hindsight, I think my talented hands were mostly the reason they kept me around. [That and his intellect, and the way his research was successful due to that. Stephen has matured enough to know that his personality might not always been a prevalent factor in his career at MetGen like he always thought it was. Losing what he thought was his sole purpose in life had put that in perspective, at least.
That comment is certainly interesting. Stephen tilts his head slightly, an eyebrow arching quizzically:]
Maybe. How can you tell?
[He's transmuted his usual attire to something more business casual with the Cloak serving as a black jacket; only the red lining within betrayed its presence. There's only the Eye of Agamotto that he hadn't touched with that spell: this world is very different than Earth's and he still figuring out how much of his magic works here or not. It was either the protection spell on the Eye or transmuting it. Beside, the necklace could become useful as a discussion starter, if needed.
Still, Wanda's question is interesting, and most importantly, is telling of her powers. So she's sensitive to magic as well, and Stephen wonders to what extent.]
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You know what I am. [It's hardly a secret in their world thanks to the news coverage, after all.] I can feel you. And I can feel that.
[Her gaze flicks down to the Eye of Agamotto.]
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Stephen leans forward, elbows propped on the table as he links his shaking hands together before resting his chin on them. The mirth in his gaze has been replaced with curiosity, and a note of seriousness. Maybe this blind date thing wasn't such a bad idea if it means that he's met another magic user like himself. Or, well, somewhat like himself.]
Correction: I know who you are. As much as you've been a popular subject in the media years ago, it's not like every newspapers published a piece on your abilities.
[He's interested in hearing more, and it's a real miracle that the Cloak hasn't twitched in excitation at her admission.]
So you can sense magic, and you can sense an Infinity Stone. [There's no real point in hiding what he is and what's around his neck if she can feel it.] Care to share what else you can do?
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[And while not everyone believes that, people fear things they don't understand and no one, not even Wanda herself, fully understands what she's capable of. Her powers defy easy classification - Thor is the god of thunder, Steve is a super soldier, Wanda is just weird.
'Magic,' she'd called it on the forms they'd used to match her, but it still doesn't quite feel like it fits.
Wanda summons a tiny ball of scarlet and extends her hand to him. Little wisps of energy curl around her fingers and will similarly embrace Stephen if he dares to bridge the gap.]
It won't hurt you. Most of what I can do comes from this.
[Her power is reminiscent of one of the Infinity Stones, but it's still very much hers.]
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[He says with an amused tone: he knows better than to believe everything that's in the media nowadays. Hell, his whole stay at Kamar-Taj taught him that he's better off never taking anything at face value.
He watches the ball of red power form in the palm of her hand with interest, and raises an eyebrow slowly as she extends her hands toward him. Stephen raises his gaze from her hand to meet her eyes, almost as if asking permission. He can be an ass, but he knows better than to take someone else's magic without their permission.
Her comment is enough for him, and he reaches over the table for the ball of scarlet. His hand is trembling but his gaze steady and curious, studying how the wisps of power curls around his own fingers, her power warm and pulsing, almost like if it's an living extension of herself. And yet, it feels akin to whenever he uses the Time Stone. Stephen watches as the wisps dissipate, brow furrow in deep thoughts: clearly Wanda has been in contact with an Infinity Stone (the Mind Stone he would bet), enough to unlock something that is neither the mystic arts or the Stone's power and that is both at the same. It's certainly unique to her.
Stephen drops his hand back on the table and leans back against his chair, mouth curling upward slightly:]
Oh, and what can you do with it? I mean beside everything that's been on the news?
[Flying, telekinesis, that sort of thing.]
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She doesn't even know what he is.]
If I tell you, then you will be afraid.
[No one likes knowing that their thoughts and perception are entirely at her mercy, and she imagines a fellow magic-user would hate it even more.]
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I can assure you, Wanda, very little scares me nowadays.
[True, no one has tried to read his thoughts before, but he's died through a thousand painful deaths at the hand of Dormammu, and will have to sacrifice himself and half of the universe for the Avengers to triumph over Thanos. A bit of mind probing sounds like a walk in the park, really.]
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But he definitely looks more put together than she feels.]
I can read minds. I can change what you feel or what you see. Or help you sleep. [Or make someone sleep. Wanda's gaze is unwavering, looking for the tiniest hint of a reaction either way.]
What they say on the news isn't always true, but what you've seen is.
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So, like Mantis?
[He asks, without realizing that Wanda might not know the female alien, even if he's heard that she's in this world as well. It goes without saying that their powers have very different origins, but they still are similar in some aspects, so it's somewhat familiar to Stephen, even if he hasn't experienced it first hand.
Amusement pulls a small smile out of him:]
I've learned the hard way not to always trust what one might usually think as truth and gospel. There's no one better place than you to tell me about yourself, Wanda.
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...she can do that?
[Wanda's only spoken to Mantis once, briefly, and it hadn't come up - she had no reason to look into Mantis's mind and Mantis had no reason to touch her. But this is a pleasant surprise - there are three people like here here now.
Maybe Loki is right. Maybe she doesn't have so many reasons to be afraid, even if it's hard for Wanda to resist one last qualifier:]
I don't use those powers unless I need to. You don't need to worry.